The Turn Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context /

• Main Authors: Ingwersen, Peter (Author), Järvelin, Kalervo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 18
• Subjects: Computer science.; Library science.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Library Science.; Social Sciences, general.

T The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is conte...

Table of Contents:

• The Cognitive Framework for Information
• The Development of Information Seeking Research
• System-Oriented Information Retrieval
• Cognitive and User-Oriented Information Retrieval
• The Integrated IS&R Research Framework
• Implications of the Cognitive Framework for IS&R
• Towards a Research Program
• Conclusion.